The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

pected Of being implicated in the recent plot to
nssassnate the Gar have been made at Cron-
stadt and other garrisous- The police atOdessa
have arrested a gang of Nihilists and seized a
Manufacture of bombs. Two girl students have
been logged to insensibility for their connection
with the Nihilist conspiracy.
A connected story of the attempt on the Cars
life says: ut was the anniversary OF the muir
der of Alexander III, and the Emperor and the
.ourt attended in the morning the usual COM
nemoration service in the fortress cathedral of
st Peter and ST Paul, where the sovereigns of
Russia since Peter the Great lie buried. On the
palace quay, where most Of the grand dukes and
I'm bassadors reside, the scene was very ami
mated. About o'clock the Emperor ex-
pected to pass and in fact, the court was about
20 remove to Gatschina, as usual. until the sum
mer male the transfer to Peterhof practicable.
Just the imperial party were leaving the ca
theorni the police telegraphed thither stat
ing tbaI grave suspicious had been aroused
as 10 The safety of the intended route, and
advising their Maiestes to take another road.
The Gar the Czarna and Czarewitch were
therefore driven along the Neva quay, and by a
circutous route which enabled them to avoid all
all the town. This was about o'clock in the
afternoon, the same hour, il will be noticed, at
which the late Emperor was assassinated, and
TO make the resemblance still more remarkable,
1t also Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile the
secret police agents, who always tbrong the
streets through which the Emperor passes. had
been watching one or two suspected individuals
hanging about the pavements near the corner
OF the Newsky Prospect, and the great Moskaia,
and had arrested with bomb grenade
under his arm. Four other said to
have been arrested directly afterwards. The
explosive machine, filled with material enough
to kill thirty persons in the crowd. was in the
shape and form of book, which could be carried
by a student under the arm without attracting
any particular attention. But it appears that a
long and peculiar tape attached TO it slipped
down and attracted the attention OF the detect
ives 1t was evidently intended that the bomb
should be exploded by ting at this tape after it
had been thrown or laid down in the road. 1t
appears however, that on Friday the detectives
noticed suspicious individuals lettering about the
Newsky Prospect, near the Anitsehkof Palace
and followed them into tea shop, where they
took off their coats. Each had some apparently
precious parcel which he laid down carefully on
tho table the floor. OF these six men one
had large book, another a bag a third par
Gel. This was reported to the authorities, and
an order was given to keep eye on the men.
On Sunday they were followed from their lode-
ings across the river to the places where
they Were arrested just before the Emperor.
who, with his eldest son, was seated in
. sedge, was about to leave the cathe-
dra,. They had made every preparation
to escape, and if they had not been arrested in
the nick of time the Gar and Czarewitch would
in all probability have met horrible death.
For the objects which these miscreants were
carrying so carefully were dynamite bombs, and
the book proved to be O hollow case containing n
bottle OF dynamite surrounded by poisoned
bullets The Emperor's horses were stopped
just as they were started and he was persuaded
to take the other route to the station. The
prisoners were all Young men: two of them were
dressed III new university uniforms and one was
Cossack student from the Don district. The
owner of the deadly volume contrived to throw
1t down At the projects residence. but
luckily it did not explode. A colonel of
artillery, however, who was called in as an
expert, incautiously tasted the sticky stuff ad-
herring to the bullets. and fell down uncon-
Ecious. At the corner of the Newsky and the
Moskaia, where there is always great press of
traffic, the imperial sleigh would have been
obliged, like the rest. to slacken speed and turn
the corner very slowly, which operation would,
OF course. have given the desired opportunity to
the would be assassins. All the district heads
OF police were immediately summoned before
General dresser. the project, and received or
ders to make an immediate search throughout
che city. Over one hundred suspected individ-
uals were arrested before night but many of
them were afterwards released. special coun
ell was held the subject, on Sunday night,
under the presidency of the Cars eldest brother
the Grand Duke Vladimir. The would be assas
sin Is described as Of short stature and he re
mains silent to all inquiries. 1t is stated by
some that his lodging has been discovered on ths
north side of the Neva; that his fellow-lodgel
there has been arrested, and that other bomb.
the other hand, it is stated on good authority
that the headquarters of this new band Of con
sprators have not yet been discovered.